We love upgrading our reading lives, so this week we’re talking about one of our favorite ways to enhance the reading experience--creating our own reading journals! Plus, as always, we’re giving our RAD Reading Recs of the week.

Highlights:

• Why Dawn’s teen journals got her grounded
• The basics of a reading/book journal
• Private journals vs. Goodreads 
• Roni avoiding awkward book signings
• What Dawn said that made Roni clutch her pearls
• Unexpected benefits of a reading journal
• Dawn’s epiphany about stencils
• Putting together your journal
• What Roni wishes she’d put in her journal from the start
• Rating systems
• Finding your style
• Digital options
• Dawn’s signal that she’s been kidnapped
• Journaling tips
• Our favorite supplies
• Our RAD Reading Recs

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Supplies recommended;

• Leuchtturm1917 Journal 
• Stabilo Fineliner Pens
• Zebra Mildliner highlighters 
• Staedtler Ergosoft colored pencils 
• Staedtler Template, Geometric Shapes & Symbols
• Plum Paper Notebook 
• Frixion pens
• Prisma Color Pencils 

Other resources mentioned:

• Roni’s free Romance Reading Journal
• Rock Your Reading Tracker by Sarah’s Bookshelves
• My Reading Journal by Anne Bogel
• Pensieve app
• Book of the Month club 

RAD Reading Recs of the Week: 

• Dear Writer, Are You In Burnout? by Becca Syme (Dawn’s rec)
• Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert (Roni’s rec)

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